i had the same results more than a year ago. Eventually I settled on emacs + tramp which does a suitable job of allowing me to edit remote files over SSH with little pain.
You're right. Thousands of years ago, ignorant, abusive and insular people never achieved positions of authority. It was only the wise and enlightened who ruled. Sadly, democracy and technology have cut these ancient threads and the world as we know it is collapsing into a sort of "Dark Ages" of short-sighted violence and repression the likes of which have never been seen before. Excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself now.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. I can't remember any better SF television. Even Star Trek had as good or better writing on occasion, but nothing I've seen was as consistently good. You know, they should get Joss to write a few scripts for the new Doctor Who. That would be something...
Are you sure there was FTL travel? The writing seemed a bit confused on whether they were in a solar system with a lot of large moons, or a whole galaxy, but the solar system seems to make more sense. It did take them several weeks to get from place to place. But they must have had some sort of "inertial dampener", the other physics-defying SF staple. ("We'll be out of the atmo in five minutes!" Let's see.. Unless I'm confused, that's at least 275 G's given 100 miles of atmosphere:-)
The only (other) real science gaffe I can think of was from an apparent attempt to be realistic -- in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", which I just watched yesterday, they need to fire a rifle (apparently one using more or less 20th century tech) in vacuum. Jayne claims it needs oxygen to fire, but it probably wouldn't. Gunpowder and basically all explosives contain their own oxidizer & don't rely on atmospheric O2.
Huh? CAD is one of the few market segments Microsoft doesn't compete in. I'm pretty sure Autocad, Cadkey, etc. would still be around, maybe running on some sort of unix or CP/M-2000, but it'd be there. YOU get the eraser shaving bag in the back of the head!
Prosecutor: Your honor, linoleo deliberately tampered with -- Dare I say, "hacked" -- the computer control system of this airplane. Defendant: It had nothing to do with the flight computers! Prosecutor: He's a terrorist! BURN HIM!!!!
At least one US Bank machine here in Portland OR (I'm not sure if it's a Diebold machine, but all their other ATMs are) lets you buy stamps. It's the one near NE Sandy & 40-somethingth.
That was from the beginning of "Robots of Death", one of my favorite episodes. But I always ignore that bit, because it doesn't make any sense from a literal POV. Perhaps it's compatible with my conception of the TARDIS, but it's just how the Doctor chose to explain it to Leela who was fresh out of the jungle at that point. This was right after she wouldn't put stop playing with the yoyo because she was afraid of breaking the magic:-)
I'll have to agree with Geoffrey Palmer as the Brigadier. But Rowan Atkinson from Mr. Bean would make a very very very bad Master. Rowan Atkinson from Blackadder would make a very good Master, though. I haven't quite been able to convince myself that they are the same person.
Yeah, I never did quite understand that part. I thought the bit of the TARDIS that travels through space and time was just a tiny interface to the rest of it, which was a safe separate dimension and didn't exist in this universe at all. Guess not...:-)
Slashdot needs an "Edit this post" feature that can only be used for good. Anyway, how about Patrick Stewart as the Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart?:-)
Well, they had good writing on and off. Most of the really bad writing was toward the end of the series. Douglas Adams did a few episodes. "City of Death" is the only one I remember off the top of my head.
I hope so. My favorites were always purely-human stories, or at least ones with new and unique villains. There's no need for a cosmic counterpart -- the Doctor is not a god or a superhero, just an influential and powerful guy doing good. "Face of Evil" comes to mind.
I think there's a place for an impersonal force threatening the whole galaxy though, like the Daleks or the Cybermen. Of course, if they use the Cybermen, new viewers will assume they stole them from Star Trek.:-)
I think they need a whole new set of villains. Keep the Time Lords, Gallifrey, Rassilon, the whole bit, the regenerations, the companions, etc. but please lose the Master. And get today's Douglas Adams or Harlan Ellison (whoever they may be) as a writer!
Okay, then why is the average 50 year old with a high school education a much better English speller than the average 25 year old graduate student?
I'm not sure your example is correct, but if it is, I'd say the 50 year old has 25 years of extra spelling experience. People have been saying "mediocrity is tolerated these days" for, oh, the last 4000 years or so.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it on the web, but I would really love to see the entries to this this reinterpreted-trailer contest, particularly the winner, by Kevin Halleran:
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: This is your new governess, and these are my children.
MOTHER SUPERIOR: His wife died several years ago, leaving him alone with the children, and I understand he's had a most difficult time managing to keep a governess there.
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: You are the 12th in a long line of governesses.
MARIA: What's wrong with the children, sir? [WOMAN SCREAMING]
MARIA: Oh-- oh-- spiders!?
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: [ECHOING] There's nothing wrong with the children.
CHILDREN: [S L O W L Y SINGING] RAIN DROPS ON ROSES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS BRIGHT COPPER KETTLES [THUNDER] AND WARM WOOLEN MITTENS...
I don't like the advice on the front page there... I've never successfully made a roux, their "featured recipe", and am therefore not competent to write a replacement article. Having tried, though, I believe this recipe is missing a LOT of information. For example, you have to stir it obsessively to prevent any of the flour particles from sticking to the bottom and burning. If it burns, it's all over (supposedly), and it's easy to burn it. Also, being hot AND glutinous oil, it will melt your skin if it splatters on you.
You appear to be making a bad attempt at astroturfing. Note the close, extremely high UINs of these users each of whom has one comment praising chef2chef.net. Most people here have no problem with using/. comments to advertise your site, but you should be honest when doing it. Please don't take offense if I've misinterpreted.
ExFree86 is not blocked. I had hypothesized they might be blocking based on some sort of soundex code. XFree is also not blocked, and returns xfree.org (an alias for xfree86.org) as the top hit. "The XFree86 Project" is not blocked. If they intended to block XFree86, they did a lousy job. I would bet this is just some sort of unintended regex match.
Coulda save A LOT of money! That technique would be just as effective from Earth. Just point your dowsing rod in approximately the direction of Mars! (Of course, that's not very high-resolution.)
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Nifty. Two more reasons to get a shiny powerbook, as if i needed them...
i had the same results more than a year ago. Eventually I settled on emacs + tramp which does a suitable job of allowing me to edit remote files over SSH with little pain.
You might enjoy China Miéville (Perdido Street Station is the only one I've read -- sort of an urban fantasy/horror).
I've really liked the Starlight series of short SF collections. I think they're out of print, but $ONLINE_BOOKSTORE should have them.
You're right. Thousands of years ago, ignorant, abusive and insular people never achieved positions of authority. It was only the wise and enlightened who ruled. Sadly, democracy and technology have cut these ancient threads and the world as we know it is collapsing into a sort of "Dark Ages" of short-sighted violence and repression the likes of which have never been seen before. Excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself now.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. I can't remember any better SF television. Even Star Trek had as good or better writing on occasion, but nothing I've seen was as consistently good. You know, they should get Joss to write a few scripts for the new Doctor Who. That would be something...
:-)
Are you sure there was FTL travel? The writing seemed a bit confused on whether they were in a solar system with a lot of large moons, or a whole galaxy, but the solar system seems to make more sense. It did take them several weeks to get from place to place. But they must have had some sort of "inertial dampener", the other physics-defying SF staple. ("We'll be out of the atmo in five minutes!" Let's see.. Unless I'm confused, that's at least 275 G's given 100 miles of atmosphere
The only (other) real science gaffe I can think of was from an apparent attempt to be realistic -- in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", which I just watched yesterday, they need to fire a rifle (apparently one using more or less 20th century tech) in vacuum. Jayne claims it needs oxygen to fire, but it probably wouldn't. Gunpowder and basically all explosives contain their own oxidizer & don't rely on atmospheric O2.
Yeah, just don't say anything that even reminds me of LAST year, ok? ...
Huh? CAD is one of the few market segments Microsoft doesn't compete in. I'm pretty sure Autocad, Cadkey, etc. would still be around, maybe running on some sort of unix or CP/M-2000, but it'd be there. YOU get the eraser shaving bag in the back of the head!
Would that actually matter, in this environment?
Prosecutor: Your honor, linoleo deliberately tampered with -- Dare I say, "hacked" -- the computer control system of this airplane.
Defendant: It had nothing to do with the flight computers!
Prosecutor: He's a terrorist! BURN HIM!!!!
At least one US Bank machine here in Portland OR (I'm not sure if it's a Diebold machine, but all their other ATMs are) lets you buy stamps. It's the one near NE Sandy & 40-somethingth.
That was from the beginning of "Robots of Death", one of my favorite episodes. But I always ignore that bit, because it doesn't make any sense from a literal POV. Perhaps it's compatible with my conception of the TARDIS, but it's just how the Doctor chose to explain it to Leela who was fresh out of the jungle at that point. This was right after she wouldn't put stop playing with the yoyo because she was afraid of breaking the magic :-)
I'll have to agree with Geoffrey Palmer as the Brigadier. But Rowan Atkinson from Mr. Bean would make a very very very bad Master. Rowan Atkinson from Blackadder would make a very good Master, though. I haven't quite been able to convince myself that they are the same person.
Yeah, I never did quite understand that part. I thought the bit of the TARDIS that travels through space and time was just a tiny interface to the rest of it, which was a safe separate dimension and didn't exist in this universe at all. Guess not... :-)
Slashdot needs an "Edit this post" feature that can only be used for good. Anyway, how about Patrick Stewart as the Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart? :-)
Well, if we have to limit it to Star Dreck actors, Brent Spiner would do a pretty decent job. Doesn't have the accent for it though :-)
Well, they had good writing on and off. Most of the really bad writing was toward the end of the series. Douglas Adams did a few episodes. "City of Death" is the only one I remember off the top of my head.
Yeah, Fox is good at failing to promote good shows. They must have some really pathological office politics. Remember Firefly? No? Guess why. :-)
I hope so. My favorites were always purely-human stories, or at least ones with new and unique villains. There's no need for a cosmic counterpart -- the Doctor is not a god or a superhero, just an influential and powerful guy doing good. "Face of Evil" comes to mind.
:-)
I think there's a place for an impersonal force threatening the whole galaxy though, like the Daleks or the Cybermen. Of course, if they use the Cybermen, new viewers will assume they stole them from Star Trek.
I think they need a whole new set of villains. Keep the Time Lords, Gallifrey, Rassilon, the whole bit, the regenerations, the companions, etc. but please lose the Master. And get today's Douglas Adams or Harlan Ellison (whoever they may be) as a writer!
Flash Click To View:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/
Replaces embedded flash with a nice non-annoying gray box that you have to click on to actually see the flash content.
Maybe they're just Neal Stephenson fans.
I'm not sure your example is correct, but if it is, I'd say the 50 year old has 25 years of extra spelling experience. People have been saying "mediocrity is tolerated these days" for, oh, the last 4000 years or so.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it on the web, but I would really love to see the entries to this this reinterpreted-trailer contest, particularly the winner, by Kevin Halleran:
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: This is your new governess, and these are my children.
MOTHER SUPERIOR: His wife died several years ago, leaving him alone with the children, and I understand he's had a most difficult time managing to keep a governess there.
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: You are the 12th in a long line of governesses.
MARIA: What's wrong with the children, sir? [WOMAN SCREAMING]
MARIA: Oh-- oh-- spiders!?
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: [ECHOING] There's nothing wrong with the children.
CHILDREN: [S L O W L Y SINGING] RAIN DROPS ON ROSES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS BRIGHT COPPER KETTLES [THUNDER] AND WARM WOOLEN MITTENS...
CAPTAIN VON TRAPP: What's that?
MARIA: The children. [GHOSTLY VOICES]
I don't like the advice on the front page there... I've never successfully made a roux, their "featured recipe", and am therefore not competent to write a replacement article. Having tried, though, I believe this recipe is missing a LOT of information. For example, you have to stir it obsessively to prevent any of the flour particles from sticking to the bottom and burning. If it burns, it's all over (supposedly), and it's easy to burn it. Also, being hot AND glutinous oil, it will melt your skin if it splatters on you.
:-)
Compare this description: http://www.gumbopages.com/food/ingred.html
I do like their description of garlic, though.
You appear to be making a bad attempt at astroturfing. Note the close, extremely high UINs of these users each of whom has one comment praising chef2chef.net. Most people here have no problem with using /. comments to advertise your site, but you should be honest when doing it. Please don't take offense if I've misinterpreted.
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http://slashdot.org/~IamCain
http://slashdot.o
http://slashdot.org/~ChefJun
ExFree86 is not blocked. I had hypothesized they might be blocking based on some sort of soundex code. XFree is also not blocked, and returns xfree.org (an alias for xfree86.org) as the top hit. "The XFree86 Project" is not blocked. If they intended to block XFree86, they did a lousy job. I would bet this is just some sort of unintended regex match.
Coulda save A LOT of money! That technique would be just as effective from Earth. Just point your dowsing rod in approximately the direction of Mars! (Of course, that's not very high-resolution.)